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The guy who is starting to give me the creeps the most in the Trump administration is Stephen Miller. They seem to be pushing him out front more and more, as Conway and Spicer seem to be melting down. Miller is cooler, and, unbound by journalistic ethics, will apparently say anything.
Interviewed this morning, he tripled down on Team Trump's claims of voter fraud, including the busing into New Hampshire. Never mind how there is no evidence behind the claim, and the fact that no losing candidate has ever challenged a NH election on this ground, the numbers don't add up if you look at the presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial races, unless you believe that the people bused over were told to vote Republican in some of the races and democratic in others.
Repeatedly asked for evidence, he either evaded the question, claimed 'everyone up there knows about it', or talked not about busing but went back to "The Registered Dead" and the dual-registration claims. These are the shiny objects he waves in front of the gullible.
The scam is what he implies, but knows is not true...that dead folks are on the registry because most states don't take them off until they get around to purging their voter rolls every few years. That doesn't mean dead folks vote, or that anyone votes in their names. It doesn't happen, or if it does it hasn't been enough that Republican election commissions around the country haven't reported it.
It's the same with dual registration. When you move from one state to another, you are dually registered unless you specifically tell the state you moved from. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Mnuchin and Kushner. Hell, you can't swing a dead cat in the White House without hitting someone who is registered in at least two states. It's not illegal. I think I'm registered in at two states, and maybe a couple of U.S. protectorates. It isn't fraud unless you vote in more than one state. And there aren't cases of that happening, either, at least no more than a handful reported over the past several elections.
The much referenced Pew research illustrates the need for modernizing our registration procedures. At least twenty (20) states are already part of a computerized system which accounts for deaths and some relocations, but it doesn't include the most populous states, namely California, Texas and New York. I know the 'voter fraud crisis' is bogus, I just don't know whether it is motivated by Trump's insatiable need to justify why he lost the popular vote, or whether it is designed to provide cover for continued efforts of Republicans in state legislatures to suppress minority voting.
But I digress. The other thing about Stephen Miller today was what seemed to me to be extremely arrogant statement regarding the legal challenges to the travel ban. He said they might continue the legal actions or come up with a new order, but that he wanted to make something clear in any event which would be "very disappointing" to the people who are protesting the President and to Senator Schumer. He said "The President's powers here are beyond question."
This made a chill run down my spine, and it should make one run down yours as well.
Interviewed this morning, he tripled down on Team Trump's claims of voter fraud, including the busing into New Hampshire. Never mind how there is no evidence behind the claim, and the fact that no losing candidate has ever challenged a NH election on this ground, the numbers don't add up if you look at the presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial races, unless you believe that the people bused over were told to vote Republican in some of the races and democratic in others.
Repeatedly asked for evidence, he either evaded the question, claimed 'everyone up there knows about it', or talked not about busing but went back to "The Registered Dead" and the dual-registration claims. These are the shiny objects he waves in front of the gullible.
The scam is what he implies, but knows is not true...that dead folks are on the registry because most states don't take them off until they get around to purging their voter rolls every few years. That doesn't mean dead folks vote, or that anyone votes in their names. It doesn't happen, or if it does it hasn't been enough that Republican election commissions around the country haven't reported it.
It's the same with dual registration. When you move from one state to another, you are dually registered unless you specifically tell the state you moved from. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Mnuchin and Kushner. Hell, you can't swing a dead cat in the White House without hitting someone who is registered in at least two states. It's not illegal. I think I'm registered in at two states, and maybe a couple of U.S. protectorates. It isn't fraud unless you vote in more than one state. And there aren't cases of that happening, either, at least no more than a handful reported over the past several elections.
The much referenced Pew research illustrates the need for modernizing our registration procedures. At least twenty (20) states are already part of a computerized system which accounts for deaths and some relocations, but it doesn't include the most populous states, namely California, Texas and New York. I know the 'voter fraud crisis' is bogus, I just don't know whether it is motivated by Trump's insatiable need to justify why he lost the popular vote, or whether it is designed to provide cover for continued efforts of Republicans in state legislatures to suppress minority voting.
But I digress. The other thing about Stephen Miller today was what seemed to me to be extremely arrogant statement regarding the legal challenges to the travel ban. He said they might continue the legal actions or come up with a new order, but that he wanted to make something clear in any event which would be "very disappointing" to the people who are protesting the President and to Senator Schumer. He said "The President's powers here are beyond question."
This made a chill run down my spine, and it should make one run down yours as well.
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